Director of Web Platform – Engineering

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £117k / month

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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Cision France

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1867

🤝 B2B

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

B2B • Media • Marketing

Cision France is a leading communications firm that specializes in public relations, media monitoring, and digital marketing solutions. They support over 50,000 communicators in enhancing brand visibility and influence within the media landscape by providing actionable insights and reliable information. Their comprehensive services include media database management, press release distribution, media intelligence, and analytics to help organizations effectively reach their audiences and assess the impact of their communication strategies.

📋 Description

• Lead, develop and mentor a blended internal and external web engineering team • Set technical direction, engineering standards and ways of working for the web engineering function • Plan and prioritise development capacity against business and digital priorities • Provide hands-on technical leadership, unblock delivery, guide architectural decisions and raise engineering quality • Partner with Brand, Design, Content, Growth, Product Marketing and Technology teams to create cohesive digital experiences • Manage external development partners and specialist suppliers • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for websites and web platforms • Oversee architecture, development, code quality, documentation, security, accessibility and reliability • Define scalable, secure, performant and maintainable web architectures • Guide technology decisions and explore AI-enabled web experiences • Lead global website consolidation into a modern headless WordPress architecture targeted for late 2026/early 2027 • Lead technical decisions around architecture, migration, integrations, governance and scalability • Establish the post-launch engineering model and roadmap, including performance, resilience, governance and ongoing evolution • Define and monitor KPIs for performance, conversion, SEO, reliability and user experience • Use data and insight to identify improvement opportunities and ensure technology investment delivers measurable business value

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading web engineering, web technology or digital development functions • Strong track record of managing and developing engineering teams • Experience owning complex websites or digital platforms across multiple brands, markets or technology environments • Strong understanding of modern web architecture, CMS platforms and headless approaches • Experience with WordPress, AEM, AWS, Next.js and TypeScript is essential • Proven experience leading major website transformation, migration, consolidation or platform programmes • Strong understanding of web performance, SEO, accessibility, security and reliability • Ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate between technical, creative, marketing and commercial perspectives • Strong commercial awareness and ability to connect technology decisions to measurable business outcomes • Strong track record in developing people and creating a high-performing engineering culture • Judgement to know when to lead through others and when to get hands-on to unblock delivery, guide technical decisions or raise engineering quality

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities • Inclusive and diverse work environment